The American counter-tenor, Lawrence Zazzo, graduated in both Music and English from Yale and King’s College Cambridge, Lawrence made his operatic debut as Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream to great acclaim while completing his vocal studies at the Royal College of Music, London.

Lawrence Zazzo is one of the most outstanding singers of his generation. In the space of a few short years, he has appeared in many of the world’s finest opera houses and concert halls. His opera roles include the title role in Giulio Cesare (Metropolitan Opera New York, Glyndebourne), the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo (Netherlands), Gualtiero in Scarlatti’s Griselda (Berlin Staatsoper, Innsbruck Festival); Goffredo Rinaldo (Berlin Staatsoper, Innsbruck Festival, Opéra de Montpellier); Ottone Agrippina (La Monnaie, Frankfurt, Theatre de Champs-Elysees, Wiesbaden), Giuliano in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo (Brussels, Paris), Ottone L’incoronazione Di Poppea (Berlin Staatsoper, La Monnaie, Bayerische Staatsoper); Endimione La Calisto (Bayerische Staatsoper), Arsamene Serse (Theatre des Champs-Elysees, English National Opera), and the title role in George Frideric Handel’s Sosarme (Sao Carlos, Lisbon).

Lawrence Zazzo is also closely associated with 20th century and contemporary music. His Paris Opera debut was as Kreon in Kreon in Liebermann’s Medea. He created the role of Trinculo in Thomas Ades’ The Tempest at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and he has sung Sciarrano’s Luci Mie Traditrici in Brussels and New York. He is closely associated with the role of Mascha in Péter Eötvös’ Three Sisters which he has performed with the Opera de Lyon, La Monnaie, Hamburg Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Vienna Festival, and in the Netherlands. He made his BBC Symphony Orchestra debut in their commission of Jonathan Dove’s Hojoki, and sang the Refugee in Dove’s Flight for Glyndebourne.

Major future plans include the title role of Giulio Cesare at La Monnaie, the Netherlands Opera and Bilbao, Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Lyon and Toronto, and Endimione La Calisto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in Munich. With René Jacobs he will appear in concerts of Giulio Cesare and Antonio Caldara’s Maddalena Ai Piedi Di Cristo in Paris. He will tour the title role in Ezio with the Kammerorchester Basel and will debut at the Theater an der Wien in L’incoronazione Di Poppea.

His many recordings include Rinaldo, Messiah, Griselda and Saul for Harmonia Mundi; Serse and Fernando for Virgin Classics, Partenope for Chandos, Deborah for Naxos, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for Columns Classics. Future recordings include Riccardo Primo and a CD of G.F. Handel Duets for Sony BMG.